Ubuntu project documentation¶
Work in progress
Welcome to the Ubuntu Project documentation! Read more about this project.
This documentation is currently under construction. We have added placeholders to help guide the structure. This means many pages will be initially empty. Pages may also move around or become split (or combined) as we work with the source material.
You can keep track of the progress via our fortnightly Discourse updates in this thread.
Contributions are very welcome! See our issues list for ideas, and our contributing guide for details on how to contribute.
Ubuntu is the world’s most widely deployed Linux operating system, but it’s also a long-standing software project, a community, and a mesh of distributed processes and governance that enable its contributors to deliver the world-class experience we’ve come to know and love.
Ubuntu has always been a very openly governed community. This open governance means that we have some community organized and run decision-making groups that help us to lead and make decisions about different elements of Ubuntu.
There are many ways to contribute to Ubuntu - be that packaging of core pieces of the operating system, writing applications for the Desktop, providing translations, working on documentation, designing wallpapers, QA, and more. This documentation will outline those contributor journeys, and the processes that govern them.
In this documentation¶
Everything you need to understand what Ubuntu is and how it’s made
Project Governance
Mission, CoC, diversity policy
Peers (Debian and Canonical)
Key concepts
Process overviews
Guides to help you build and contribute to Ubuntu
Fix bugs
Find a sponsor for your upload
Update a package version
Templates and checklists
Contribute documentation
Guides for tasks that require elevated permissions
Review an MIR or SRU
Sponsor an upload
Archive management
Manage a release
Process checklists
About the people of Ubuntu, their roles, and their responsibilities
Councils and Boards
Delegation
Roles (uploader, core-dev etc)
Joining a role (contributor pathways)
Community
Project and community¶
The Ubuntu Linux distribution is part of the Ubuntu family of projects. It’s an open source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes, and constructive feedback.
Get support in our Matrix channel
Using Ubuntu¶
Ubuntu Server documentation
Ubuntu Desktop documentation
Ubuntu Core documentation
Ubuntu on Public Cloud